{"id":789352,"date":"2025-01-15T15:00:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T13:00:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-01-15T15:00:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T13:00:26","slug":"biznes-ochikuye-na-pidpysannya-zakonu-pro-pidvyshhennya-aktsyziv-na-tyutyun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/biznes-ochikuye-na-pidpysannya-zakonu-pro-pidvyshhennya-aktsyziv-na-tyutyun\/","title":{"rendered":"Businesses await signing of the law on increasing tobacco excise rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Business Association is awaiting the signing by the President of Ukraine of Law No. 4115-IX (Law No. 11090), which revises excise tax rates on tobacco products.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth noting that the Law was submitted to the President for signing on December 9, 2024, and was intended to come into effect on January 1, 2025. <a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ft.me%2Fyzheleznyak%2F11324&amp;data=05%7C02%7CValeriia.Diachok%40new.eba.com.ua%7C76b1b3eddbb54fcb399d08dd35636f01%7C92456a16661b498eadd5e224c7dd6afa%7C0%7C0%7C638725423357182407%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=4r%2Bi0SPeMKnrt%2FVIW%2FPQlqeA%2Bk7vtodj3nzCuRJyuiw%3D&amp;reserved=0\">According to MP Yaroslav Zhelezniak<\/a>, the delay in signing the law has already cost the budget UAH 378 million as of January 14.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the European Business Association <a href=\"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/biznes-spilnota-zaklykaye-parlament-pidtrymaty-uryadovu-versiyu-proektu-zakonu-11090-v-chastyni-rozmiru-stavok-aktsyznogo-podatku-na-tyutyunovi-vyroby\/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR25OUlMxNR9RzKX3fXAFv1flTnJhLNgTkfLZIsXWQTr1BW97uLNLnVmu1A_aem_Ks_qTm-naJOMSSfo366wOA\">supported the adoption of the Law<\/a>, particularly concerning the excise tax rates on tobacco products. The EBA emphasized the importance of aligning with the European Union\u2019s approach to determining the euro-to-hryvnia exchange rate throughout the year to enable businesses\u2014Ukraine\u2019s largest taxpayers\u2014to plan their operations effectively.<\/p>\n<p>The current delay in signing this Law clearly undermines predictability for businesses and creates uncertainty for medium-term operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Business Association is awaiting the signing by the President of Ukraine of Law No. 4115-IX (Law No. 11090), which revises excise tax rates on tobacco products. It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33544,"featured_media":613221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15564,15563,15574],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-789352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lobbying-news-en","category-main-news-en","category-news-and-articles-from-association-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33544"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.eba.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}